October 5, 2000
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A Narco News October 4
Commentary Predicted:
"Read between the lines of the US and Bolivian government
statements. The only way they can end the unrest is to allow
peasant families to grow a small amount of coca per family. As
US officials micro-manage the situation from afar.. they are
finessing the bottom line: coca growing may be decriminalized
for small scale producers. In other words, harm reduction in
Bolivia. And yet the governments, rather than trumpet such a
move as progress, will instead go to all lengths to claim it
didn't happen.This,
of course, is only one possible outcome of these earthshaking
events...."

What we predicted on Tuesday
became a governmental offer on Wednesday. According to the daily
La Razon in La Paz, State negotiators contacted coca-grower leaders
by telephone to make the behind the scenes offer.

"Those who know Castaño know
that any statement that places in doubt his claim of a distance
from drug trafficking can provoke attacks of rage." -- El Nuevo Herald (9/25)

Narco-of-the-Month

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